NEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to a Connecticut law that ended the state’s decades-old religious exemptions from immunization requirements for children in schools, colleges and day care.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said ending religious exemptions, while still allowing medical exemptions, was a rational means to promote health and safety by reducing the potential spread of vaccine-preventable diseases.
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